Didn’t mean to step on princess toes, no slight intended, M P, désolée.Heading out the door in a few minutes to get lost for an hour hopefully. When I get back I have to shovel that crud the city has managed to scrape once again into our entrances making it difficult for smaller cars to get in.Got up to find our fancy goldfish has died, it lived almost 10 years. Little df isn`t going to be happy but she is getting an aquarium for Christmas so stocking that and keeping it going will hopefully help.Then grabbed the toaster and the bagels, to find the toaster isn`t working anymore, franchement. I am not going back to a mall again today..

Merry Christmas everyone, and I mean everyone, paie, joie et amitié. Enjoy the time off, be safe, be good. I know some of you will be travelling, Godspeed.

Rest day for me today...will just do my regular core stuff...abs and pushups

Grommit...I finally wrapped this morning LOL

DF..I was teasing...have a great run

Hi TD and Running gag

Roly..when you speak of jay..is this the Jay Challenge...I have been toying with the idea of that crazy race..After Vt City Marathon in May..I am planning on entering the ultra arena and the past 3 years I have been "lurking" several times a month on that website.

Hi Genie

Hi Mercury

You guys need to give me a little backround or better yet...come to the post race tent and sign up for a person of the day post...you click on the stciky about it to find out more. It is agreat way to introduce yourselves to la gang here. Also...I am one of the organizers of teh POTD posts Anyway..if you are intersted...let me know and Grizzly will give you a date

ok ciao ciao

Whatever you can do,Or think you can, begin it.Boldness has power, and genius,And magic in it.- Goethe

....... do jay!! it's outrageous !! you will laugh your arse off!! a seriously funny race! Dan the RD in a riot..... I marked the course last year as my "volunteer duty" to get me into the VT100...... let me know when you wanna get into the Ultra thing, happy to share my limited knowledge....

Todays run: up to the top, one lop and back down.... about 13,5 miles. Very hard going up in snow..... HR up at least 20% .... rest day tomorrow...

Ah.. nice run this morning. Ran PS and BF from the gym to the Peel Basin across the old port to Berri and up the bike path to parc Lafontaine before returning by way of Rachel and down Parc Ave.

It was nice and balmy with no snow nor ice on the roads The sidewalks however, are still messy. Ah... clear roads, unlike Grommit, I prefer clear flat roads. Yup, I'm an princess when it comes to long runs. Mind you, PS and BF find that I sprinkle too many hills in our runs.

I emailed that Dan guy a couple of years ago about his Jay Challenge and he sort of "dissuaded" me. I think he thinks I am too much of a rpincess...what he doesn;t realize is that i am a hard core princess

Hi martin...martin is very cool..even if he doesn't run.

Here is the link to my POTD post..it isn't cool like all your links but it will give you an idea of me

Bah, I saw your 100 mile pics, you are the same handsome grommit you always were!! I think it was about 6 years ago, that's probably the last year I was running at what, for me, was good distance. Long string of injuries has kept me on the bench, latest being ACL replacement in July so I am starting over from nada. Eventually I'll get over myself and just enjoy being a newbie again.

Good to see you here!!! Be nice to my friend MP or bad things will happen!

Skirts rock!! I love running in them...they are very princessy..especially in pink

2 years ago I did A 25KM trail race..Run for the Toad in Paris Ontario..It was awesome and alot of fun...my only trail "race" but I love running off road and do as much of it as I can..I think I would do the 29km first...I don't wat to come in last

Running gag Where is this UltimateXC you speak of...now I don't want to sound too sure of myself...but 10km...I don't even warm up after 10 km...10km are usually my recovery run distances

Whatever you can do,Or think you can, begin it.Boldness has power, and genius,And magic in it.- Goethe

I am a bit slow at understanding these things LOL Thank you. Now I am going to be honest...when I contacted that Dan dude 2 years ago..he really intimidated me. I am not the fastest runner in the world but I have a head of steal and it really bothered me that he said he thought I should do more marathons before considering his race...especially when I ran into a mother at my kids school who has a cottage at Jay..is not a runner...knows this Dan dude..and told me that she was going to run it..and I said..and he is encouraging you to do this?? WTF???

Anyway..that never happened cause she gave up on running after 2 months..but it kind of pissed me off. I know I come off as a princess ..well I am a princess ...but it intimidated me..and but also...when I would lurk on CR at you guys I was also intimidated..so here is the question...even after my running partner died 2 months ago and Martin encouraged me to post...I was too intimidated. So this might be my own issue.

To do the 29km at the Jay thing...what do I have to be able to do? I run between 45 and 70 miles a week...by the time Jay happens I will have 5 marathons under my belt and probably about 25 HM..I have never in 6 years gone more than 2 days without running except when I was really sick the week before the Adirondack Marathon in Schroon Lake 3 years ago and took off 5 days. I still ran the dam race with a fever. I am extremely determined...just not very fast.

Whatever you can do,Or think you can, begin it.Boldness has power, and genius,And magic in it.- Goethe

You got your answer when you said that you are running between 45 and 70 miles a week. That's a lot of volume and it means that you have enough strength and endurance for Jay. Maybe you should add some trail and hill running, but that's about it.